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A Short Biography of Richard Phillips Feynman

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Richard Phillips Feynman

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Richard Phillips Feynman

Born:

11 May 1918

Died:

15 Feb 1988




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Physicist and professor                          
                          
                          
Assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics. 

Richard Phillips Feynman proposed the parton model.

Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.